braca
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Noun edit
braca f (plural brache)
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Etymology edit
Probably from Transalpine Gaulish *brāca, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brāks, *brōks (“rump, hindquarters, crotch; leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrāg- (“rump, hock, hindquarters”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack, split”). Cognate with Latin suffrāgō (“hindquarters, hock, rump”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbraː.ka/, [ˈbräːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbra.ka/, [ˈbräːkä]
Noun edit
brāca f (genitive brācae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | brāca | brācae |
Genitive | brācae | brācārum |
Dative | brācae | brācīs |
Accusative | brācam | brācās |
Ablative | brācā | brācīs |
Vocative | brāca | brācae |
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- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: brace
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “braca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- braca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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Adjective edit
braca